- Boris Zon was born on January 24, 1898 in Syzran, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire [now Samara oblast, Russia]. Boris was a writer, known for Utiraite slyozy (1932). Boris died on June 10, 1966 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
- He was the director of the first 8 plays by Yevgeny Schwartz.
- Boris Zon was a Soviet stage actor, theatre director and theatre educator.
- Since 1923, Zon has been engaged in teaching work; since 1940, he was a professor first at the Leningrad Theatre Institute named after A. N. Ostrovsky, and then at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography founded on its basis.
- Oleg Efremov considered Boris Zon "one of the last and, perhaps, most intelligent students of Stanislavsky," and G. A. Tovstonogov considered him "the best theatre teacher in the USSR".
- Boris Zon is one of the main figures of the youth theatre movement; from 1921 to 1935 , first as an actor and then as a director, he worked at the Leningrad Youth Theatre.
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